trauma?

My original impetus for beginning to write was to try and answer the fundamental question of choice. This was the nucleus, the DNA if you will of the transgender condition. To know how much choice is being exercised.

Over the years I dealt with people for whom transition was a pivotal matter of wanting to continue existing or not and others for whom their gender variance seemed to be almost a kind of sport. My question wasn't answered but it only confirmed that we were dealing with a gradient at which we reach a point where, for some, gender dysphoria drops off altogether.

Here then is a young transgender woman asking about childhood trauma as a possibility for her own origins. Something which I have also reflected on many times...